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A band of fast-falling, heavy snow surprised Northern Kentucky early Friday morning, prompting school closures and causing travel headaches.

But only a few miles away in Ohio, not a single snowflake fell. What is going on here?

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Meteorologist Randi Rico explained that a band of lake effect snow made it the trip all the way from Lake Michigan overnight.

Typically when we see lake enhanced bands in Cincinnati, it really isn’t much — but this morning’s batch is an overachiever.

Lake effect snow forms when northwest winds blow over non-frozen Great Lakes. It picks up some of the moisture and dumps it once it gets back over land. Typically they aren’t much more than flurries if they hold together long enough to head toward Cincinnati.

Unlike the snow we are used to seeing in Greater Cincinnati, lake effect snow is intense and moves quickly, coating areas with fast-falling, fluffy accumulating snow. But the bands can be small, and can leave several inches of snow in one neighborhood while another neighborhood just a mile away could see no snow at all.

This morning, a three-mile-wide band of snow moving in from the northeast left a sliver of Northern Kentucky two to three inches of snow.

The snow is heading out and should stop falling by 8 a.m., Rico added.